Excommunication is not a damnation to Hell. It's a public statement that what they are saying is not what the Catholic Doctrine is saying. There's a difference. It's still supposed to be an invitation to correct. An excommunication can be reversed.
For your second point, there are some organizations that use religion as an excuse to make money. Probably not a shocker to most people. I don't agree with that at all. Tithing is between a person and God, not for people to use as extortion. There is a cost to running any facility, including a church, so there is a good reason for it. Many Priests, Pastors, Preachers, etc. could be making more money in the real world. As a Catholic, I know that each ordained religious person takes vows of Celibacy, Poverty, and Obedience. I'm not so naive as to think that all vows are taken like that all the time, but they are still there.
The thing that bothers me most is that the ones who evangelize in a non-intrusive way get lumped in with those who are complete jerks. The squeaky wheel gets the oil, if I remember the expression correctly. In the same way that many people go around leading fairly normal lives, but those who do something extreme are the ones who hit the paper. Whether it's extremely good, or extremely bad, that's who you hear about.
I see the point you are trying to make, but Christians don't have the power to damn someone to Hell. Usually it is said that God will damn you, or something like that. It is more of a warning, as it is not within their control. It is similar to someone telling you that if you lie in the middle of the freeway, you are likely to get hit by a car. They aren't threatening you with a car, but warning you of the car's coming. Whether you believe in what the Christians are saying or not isn't relevant, just that the message they are bringing isn't a threat.
The article says nothing about how the LAN on the plane connects to the internet though. This may be true, but the title of the article (which is really all I can be bothered to read) says that they dropped wireless. This leads me to conclude that it must be wired (wireless = without wires. Not wireless = not without wires). Therefore, they must have fiber-optic cable running from the plane to the ground. I say fiber-optic because I know that CAT5 has a range of only about 100 meters, without repeaters. If I remember correctly, fiber-optic has a range of around 2000 meters, which should be enough for everyone. Being that I cannot also be bothered to learn the metric system, I can only assume that 2000 meters is higher than most planes fly, and perhaps is enough to get an internet connection on the moon. The only issue that I can see with this is that the cables might become tangled in midair, so there would have to be another set of planes that function to untangle the cables from other planes. This makes so much sense!
I have had bad experiences with Maxwell myself. I think the problems with Maxwell are probably due to their bad brand reputation. You should really stick with the real brands. Genuine ones like: Sorny, Magnetbox, or Panaphonics. That might help a bit.
Now all we need is somebody to connect a KVM (switch) to a KVM (virtualisation) machine that's running a KVM (Java KVM)!
If I get to pick who gets to hook all this up, my vote goes to K. V. Mahadevan, who is also under KVM in wikipedia. Or perhaps a member of the Belgian Football Team, while visiting the Kalamazoo Valley Museum. Actually, looking at a list of Acronyms for KVM, it appears that this usage of KVM ranks second to last of the 8 that it lists, only above the Belgian Football team, Koninklijke Voetbalclub Mechelen. Pretty pathetic, if you ask me.
It isn't slashdotted. However, you do need a 3D monitor to view it. Pretty sweet to see, I think. Don't you have a 3D viewscreen? And you dare to tread in news for nerds. Any respectable nerd would have at least 3. I know I have 7. Some people...
It said the same for me, but I am religious, but not in a forceful way, so perhaps that's it. I just decided to post to say that it said that I wasn't in to technology much, which is dead wrong. It seems to have only slightly better than half of them right for me, and all but one of the things that it "knew" were binary (one or the other). Seems pretty bunk.
I believe that it's a station thing. There is a certain way that each city's police station presents itself, as well as a kind of group attitude. In my county in Minnesota, there's drastic differences in how each city works. There's one city that all the cops are power-bent pricks all around. In another, they focus on traffic violations. In another, they are anal-retentive about the heights of bonfires. In another, they just write up a report about any crime, and don't do anything about it. As you drift from the suburbs to the city, the focus is less on speeding and traffic violations, and more on actual crimes. The city I live in is the one with the power-bent pricks. Where I work, they are halfway decent. Maybe it's your area of California, or perhaps all of California, but there are some good cops around. For some, it's about the power, for others it's about the service.
Allow me to introduce myself. I am a proud Porsche owner (1979 Porsche 928), and am by no means rich. I just happened to get a great deal on a used one. I know that I'm probably the exception, rather than the rule, but the fact is that if you look long enough, you can get it. I ended up paying in the neighborhood of $6000 for mine, which only had 73k miles on it. I also work for my local Church full time, on a salary that just makes ends meet. The thought of me being rich is laughable. Just throwing a wrench in your stereotype.
Otherwise, I agree with your idea. Porsche makes enough to get by, but as far as aftermarket stuff goes, there's nothing. Part of that is that many Porsche enthusiasts (who I am not one of, just a happy owner, they drive me crazy) turn up their nose at the idea of non-Porsche parts "contaminating" their car. They make sure that even their oil filters bear the Porsche name. I mean, many wouldn't even consider the 928 as a "real" Porsche, even though it was the favorite of Ferdinand Porsche, the operator of the company at the time, and son of the founder. But there is also probably the thought of producing them with no real market, even if all Porsche owners wanted their cars souped up.
I do have to say that, in my experience, Porsches are incredibly engineered, and everything is made to work together. Aftermarket parts, other than cosmetic, probably have no real place in them, as they could mess up the perfect balance of the car. Not that it wouldn't work, but that it might have a detrimental effect that would counteract the positive improvement. Not to say that the car is perfect, but that it takes a significant amount of engineering to improve upon it correctly. In that sense, I can see the reason for not wanting unoriginal parts. Either way, there isn't really a market for them, and your point stands.
By putting your life on the line, I was implying that they put their life on the line for others. I think that deserves a great deal of respect. I am by no means someone who holds a cop as someone higher than everyone else, and above the law, but that degree of unselfishness is worthy of my respect. I'm not saying that everyone who is a cop holds to the code of "To Protect and Serve", but those that do shouldn't be degraded to the level of those that don't.
May I ask if you have turned anyone in who has broken the code of your profession? Perhaps someone violating the internet usage code (browsing Slashdot during work hours may be applicable). Or maybe someone who isn't obeying the dress code. Perhaps someone who leaves work/gets to work a few minutes early or late. To say that any cop who hasn't obeyed the law should be fired and arrested would pretty much leave nobody around. Cops are human, too (excepting robocop), and that implies a degree of mistakes.
If you have tried to turn people in for what are considered minor offenses, who do you think gets the worst of it. I know that if I were to tell my boss that a co-worker was 10 minutes late for work, my co-worker may get reprimanded, but my boss gets the impression that they have a big mouth. I'm sure that the same would happen for a cop. If they get a reputation for tattling on their co-workers, it's going to be miserable for them. It's not right, but that's the way it is.
Finally, I don't know what you are talking about with cops never being in trouble. A google search for "Cop arrested for" givesquiteafewrelevantstories on the first page. They get away with some stuff, like non-cops, and they get caught for some stuff, like non-cops.
Oh, and when I lived in Maple Ridge, the noble RCMP would spend hours at a time in Tim Hortons drinking complimentary donuts.
Drinking donuts? I knew that Canada was a little different, but the cops in the USA usually just eat theirs, just like most of the average citizens here. I'm tempted to get a donut and a straw to try to make that work.
Back on topic: I'm a bit of a fence-sitter on the cop issue. I was a bit of a speed demon when I first got my license, racking up 6-7 speeding tickets in the first year and a half of driving. During that time, I also had my car broken into, and basically nothing happened. What I saw was cops sitting in hard to see places on highways (I saw them a bit too late, usually), but there wasn't one around when I needed one.
The thief who broke into my car actually dropped a pair of sunglasses with fingerprints all over them, and when I mentioned it to the officer who wrote up the report, he said that he wasn't really interested, as they wouldn't do anything with them. I know that my break-in wasn't exactly a huge loss, but there seemed to be a bit of a streak in the area. A co-worker of my dad's was tackled in the parking lot in broad daylight to try to get her purse, in the same parking lot that I had my car broken into. A few blocks away, a friend had her car broken into, also. My thought is that if I know of 3 incidents within a 2 week time period, they are probably related, there are probably more, and evidence to stop that crime spree should be looked at.
I didn't have the greatest respect for cops, and I really only knew one on a slightly personal basis. He was a friend of my mom, and he seemed like a really good guy. He was genuinely concerned about the people that he was serving. Unfortunately, he was killed in the line of duty. He was putting spike strips on the road to stop a high-speed chase, when the driver, who was at points driving with his knees so he could shoot drugs into his arm while on this chase, steered into him on the median, and killed him. The driver said that he saw him standing there, and aimed his car at him, going 110 miles per hour. The driver hit him head-on, throwing him 280 feet, and killing him. He pled guilty and will serve 37 years in prison
After that, I looked again at what I thought of cops. Sure, sometimes they have to enforce the stupid (in my opinion) laws, like unreasonable speed limits (unsafe driving isn't tied to a number, in my opinion), but many of them put their life on the line, too. I'm sure that there's some that are corrupt, but most aren't, just like most presidents aren't bent on war, most priests aren't pedophiles, and most gamers aren't killers. It's just the bad ones that get the stories around. When is the last time that you heard someone say: That cop caught that crook, well done? To most, that's just them doing their job. I think that most cops deserve respect, but those that abuse the uniform should be removed from the force. It's a few bad apples spoiling the bunch.
Did you reply to the correct post? I mean, if the GP is correct, as you imply, then there are no Slashdot children. Quote a paradox you have gotten yourself into, isn't it?
Didn't we just have the story about the moron who wipped and defragged his drive
Hey, whatever floats your boat. Whips, chains, defragging, black leather and PVC. With the size of hard drives today, I'm sure there's room for some of that.
But how often does the average geek clean? I know I pick up often, but the scrubbing, etc. (that which would get rid of blood) isn't quite as frequent. Just offering another possibility.
Besides that, there's no teen in the picture. It seems to be a group of men that appear to be well outside their teenage years. Everyone in the picture is wearing a tie. No self-respecting 14 year old would wear a tie unless forced. I would guess that the researchers posed for a picture, and it really didn't make much sense.
If I use a France Telecom SMTP server rumour has it from time to time they filter emails in and out with nasty words in it. I cannot verify this but I know people who swear it is true.
I would guess that they don't swear that by e-mail, do they?
On first glance, I was thinking that it's best not to give them ideas, but perhaps giving them a percentage of my "broken wind" energy would be a good idea.
Actually, in the US, red = conservatives (republicans) and blue = liberals (democrats). I don't know if it's a typo, or if you didn't know. But the color (or colour) difference is strange. I would suppose there's more, and I'm curious to find out what they are.
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Excommunication is not a damnation to Hell. It's a public statement that what they are saying is not what the Catholic Doctrine is saying. There's a difference. It's still supposed to be an invitation to correct. An excommunication can be reversed.
For your second point, there are some organizations that use religion as an excuse to make money. Probably not a shocker to most people. I don't agree with that at all. Tithing is between a person and God, not for people to use as extortion. There is a cost to running any facility, including a church, so there is a good reason for it. Many Priests, Pastors, Preachers, etc. could be making more money in the real world. As a Catholic, I know that each ordained religious person takes vows of Celibacy, Poverty, and Obedience. I'm not so naive as to think that all vows are taken like that all the time, but they are still there.
The thing that bothers me most is that the ones who evangelize in a non-intrusive way get lumped in with those who are complete jerks. The squeaky wheel gets the oil, if I remember the expression correctly. In the same way that many people go around leading fairly normal lives, but those who do something extreme are the ones who hit the paper. Whether it's extremely good, or extremely bad, that's who you hear about.
I see the point you are trying to make, but Christians don't have the power to damn someone to Hell. Usually it is said that God will damn you, or something like that. It is more of a warning, as it is not within their control. It is similar to someone telling you that if you lie in the middle of the freeway, you are likely to get hit by a car. They aren't threatening you with a car, but warning you of the car's coming. Whether you believe in what the Christians are saying or not isn't relevant, just that the message they are bringing isn't a threat.
This still doesn't explain the km^2 as units of a radius. I suppose it could be (10,000)^2 km, but that hardly makes sense.
Now all we need is somebody to connect a KVM (switch) to a KVM (virtualisation) machine that's running a KVM (Java KVM)!
If I get to pick who gets to hook all this up, my vote goes to K. V. Mahadevan, who is also under KVM in wikipedia. Or perhaps a member of the Belgian Football Team, while visiting the Kalamazoo Valley Museum. Actually, looking at a list of Acronyms for KVM, it appears that this usage of KVM ranks second to last of the 8 that it lists, only above the Belgian Football team, Koninklijke Voetbalclub Mechelen. Pretty pathetic, if you ask me.I don't know why, but I have a strange desire to say: Individually Wrapped, for Freshness!
It isn't slashdotted. However, you do need a 3D monitor to view it. Pretty sweet to see, I think. Don't you have a 3D viewscreen? And you dare to tread in news for nerds. Any respectable nerd would have at least 3. I know I have 7. Some people...
It said the same for me, but I am religious, but not in a forceful way, so perhaps that's it. I just decided to post to say that it said that I wasn't in to technology much, which is dead wrong. It seems to have only slightly better than half of them right for me, and all but one of the things that it "knew" were binary (one or the other). Seems pretty bunk.
I believe that it's a station thing. There is a certain way that each city's police station presents itself, as well as a kind of group attitude. In my county in Minnesota, there's drastic differences in how each city works. There's one city that all the cops are power-bent pricks all around. In another, they focus on traffic violations. In another, they are anal-retentive about the heights of bonfires. In another, they just write up a report about any crime, and don't do anything about it. As you drift from the suburbs to the city, the focus is less on speeding and traffic violations, and more on actual crimes. The city I live in is the one with the power-bent pricks. Where I work, they are halfway decent. Maybe it's your area of California, or perhaps all of California, but there are some good cops around. For some, it's about the power, for others it's about the service.
Allow me to introduce myself. I am a proud Porsche owner (1979 Porsche 928), and am by no means rich. I just happened to get a great deal on a used one. I know that I'm probably the exception, rather than the rule, but the fact is that if you look long enough, you can get it. I ended up paying in the neighborhood of $6000 for mine, which only had 73k miles on it. I also work for my local Church full time, on a salary that just makes ends meet. The thought of me being rich is laughable. Just throwing a wrench in your stereotype.
Otherwise, I agree with your idea. Porsche makes enough to get by, but as far as aftermarket stuff goes, there's nothing. Part of that is that many Porsche enthusiasts (who I am not one of, just a happy owner, they drive me crazy) turn up their nose at the idea of non-Porsche parts "contaminating" their car. They make sure that even their oil filters bear the Porsche name. I mean, many wouldn't even consider the 928 as a "real" Porsche, even though it was the favorite of Ferdinand Porsche, the operator of the company at the time, and son of the founder. But there is also probably the thought of producing them with no real market, even if all Porsche owners wanted their cars souped up.
I do have to say that, in my experience, Porsches are incredibly engineered, and everything is made to work together. Aftermarket parts, other than cosmetic, probably have no real place in them, as they could mess up the perfect balance of the car. Not that it wouldn't work, but that it might have a detrimental effect that would counteract the positive improvement. Not to say that the car is perfect, but that it takes a significant amount of engineering to improve upon it correctly. In that sense, I can see the reason for not wanting unoriginal parts. Either way, there isn't really a market for them, and your point stands.
By putting your life on the line, I was implying that they put their life on the line for others. I think that deserves a great deal of respect. I am by no means someone who holds a cop as someone higher than everyone else, and above the law, but that degree of unselfishness is worthy of my respect. I'm not saying that everyone who is a cop holds to the code of "To Protect and Serve", but those that do shouldn't be degraded to the level of those that don't.
May I ask if you have turned anyone in who has broken the code of your profession? Perhaps someone violating the internet usage code (browsing Slashdot during work hours may be applicable). Or maybe someone who isn't obeying the dress code. Perhaps someone who leaves work/gets to work a few minutes early or late. To say that any cop who hasn't obeyed the law should be fired and arrested would pretty much leave nobody around. Cops are human, too (excepting robocop), and that implies a degree of mistakes.
If you have tried to turn people in for what are considered minor offenses, who do you think gets the worst of it. I know that if I were to tell my boss that a co-worker was 10 minutes late for work, my co-worker may get reprimanded, but my boss gets the impression that they have a big mouth. I'm sure that the same would happen for a cop. If they get a reputation for tattling on their co-workers, it's going to be miserable for them. It's not right, but that's the way it is.
Finally, I don't know what you are talking about with cops never being in trouble. A google search for "Cop arrested for" gives quite a few relevant stories on the first page. They get away with some stuff, like non-cops, and they get caught for some stuff, like non-cops.
Back on topic: I'm a bit of a fence-sitter on the cop issue. I was a bit of a speed demon when I first got my license, racking up 6-7 speeding tickets in the first year and a half of driving. During that time, I also had my car broken into, and basically nothing happened. What I saw was cops sitting in hard to see places on highways (I saw them a bit too late, usually), but there wasn't one around when I needed one.
The thief who broke into my car actually dropped a pair of sunglasses with fingerprints all over them, and when I mentioned it to the officer who wrote up the report, he said that he wasn't really interested, as they wouldn't do anything with them. I know that my break-in wasn't exactly a huge loss, but there seemed to be a bit of a streak in the area. A co-worker of my dad's was tackled in the parking lot in broad daylight to try to get her purse, in the same parking lot that I had my car broken into. A few blocks away, a friend had her car broken into, also. My thought is that if I know of 3 incidents within a 2 week time period, they are probably related, there are probably more, and evidence to stop that crime spree should be looked at.
I didn't have the greatest respect for cops, and I really only knew one on a slightly personal basis. He was a friend of my mom, and he seemed like a really good guy. He was genuinely concerned about the people that he was serving. Unfortunately, he was killed in the line of duty. He was putting spike strips on the road to stop a high-speed chase, when the driver, who was at points driving with his knees so he could shoot drugs into his arm while on this chase, steered into him on the median, and killed him. The driver said that he saw him standing there, and aimed his car at him, going 110 miles per hour. The driver hit him head-on, throwing him 280 feet, and killing him. He pled guilty and will serve 37 years in prison
After that, I looked again at what I thought of cops. Sure, sometimes they have to enforce the stupid (in my opinion) laws, like unreasonable speed limits (unsafe driving isn't tied to a number, in my opinion), but many of them put their life on the line, too. I'm sure that there's some that are corrupt, but most aren't, just like most presidents aren't bent on war, most priests aren't pedophiles, and most gamers aren't killers. It's just the bad ones that get the stories around. When is the last time that you heard someone say: That cop caught that crook, well done? To most, that's just them doing their job. I think that most cops deserve respect, but those that abuse the uniform should be removed from the force. It's a few bad apples spoiling the bunch.
You there! Stop with your usage of facts and logic! That's not allowed here. Only hearsay and fallacies are acceptable in this forum.
Did you reply to the correct post? I mean, if the GP is correct, as you imply, then there are no Slashdot children. Quote a paradox you have gotten yourself into, isn't it?
It's OK, I hear they are making some improvements. I can't wait for the pineapples.
Well, perhaps it's a Mac. Think Different.
Hmm, would a PrisonLinux distro have everything inside a chroot jail?
But how often does the average geek clean? I know I pick up often, but the scrubbing, etc. (that which would get rid of blood) isn't quite as frequent. Just offering another possibility.
Besides that, there's no teen in the picture. It seems to be a group of men that appear to be well outside their teenage years. Everyone in the picture is wearing a tie. No self-respecting 14 year old would wear a tie unless forced. I would guess that the researchers posed for a picture, and it really didn't make much sense.
Like SuicideGirls**? Or doesn't that count, because they apologized?
**Link to Slashdot story, not their site, so it's safe for work
On first glance, I was thinking that it's best not to give them ideas, but perhaps giving them a percentage of my "broken wind" energy would be a good idea.
Actually, in the US, red = conservatives (republicans) and blue = liberals (democrats). I don't know if it's a typo, or if you didn't know. But the color (or colour) difference is strange. I would suppose there's more, and I'm curious to find out what they are.